The
private equity guys think a lot of them will be coming up for sale and they'll have an opportunity to buy them.
If knowing where we are in the market cycle is the most important thing (and not everyone agrees, see the comments from one of my private
equity guys about that under part I here) then the best solution is probably to chart the cycles for the markets we're investing in ourselves.
In the last three years, we've seen Tandem Expansion Fund and now OMERS Ventures step into that void as Canadian technologically - focused
growth equity guys.
I've noticed signs of growing exuberance from other fund managers and private
equity guys about the next few years.
Talk to 99 % of the Toronto
private equity guys, and they're not going to back Hootsuite or Shopify to go on an acquisition spree.
There is
no equity guy in that room.
There's Mike Bloomberg, who's 20 times, 100 hundred times richer than Mitt Romney, but is a man of the people and then there's a rich guy who's a private
equity guy, who won't show his tax returns — MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Who has a car elevator.
Daunt said as part of the bidding process, Elliott's private equity team «didn't seem hugely different to the other private
equity guys».
$ 200,000 plus janitors, $ 150,000.22 - year - olds, yourself who makes a lot more than the janitor, bloggers who make multiple six figures, venture capitalist, private
equity guys, etc..
«The private
equity guys have been winning deals by using 90 % leverage,» he says.